OT && !OT Apple Warning

[dogas at bellsouth.net]

Its been PowerPC season down here.   First, found and have been playing AIX on that IBM RS/6000 520, and then a couple of more recent Macs appeared, a sweet 700mhz g4 imac lamp/flatpanel model with OSX Jaguar CDs for almost nothing.  Been enjoying OSX. too

Then  the other day I got  a 350mhz slot-loading g3 all-in one imac.  OS 9.1 was screwed up a little and the CDROM drive wasnt working, just spitting CDs back out.  Big pause too on startup.  I finally got OS 9.0 to boot and reinstall from an attached USB cdrom.  And then I figured what the hell, and proceeded to install OSX/Jag on the g3...

WARNING!   Don't do that without updating the computer's firmware first!   Too late for me.  It highly screwed up the computer (pram/analog video settings/black screened)

http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=06973

...has a good article on it, but I'm trying something different... The logic board on the G3 doesn't have the VGA connector, but I have a junk imac logic board with the VGA port..   It was a good enough excuse to break out the blow torch and tonight I'll solder it onto my 350mhz board, hoping to get maybe at least get the 'alternate' video instead of just the imac's "Black Screen of Death"  OS9.0 might still be in there but I think I still need a OS 9.2.2 CD (or a dmg) too and some way to genate a bootable HD with new firmware, externally.  Anyone want to trade and get a nice MAC 0S 7.0 floppy package for a 9.2.2 CD?  (open to other trades too)   I've got the g4 imac and a beige g3 somewhere still, I hope, to work on the  imac's HD if needed, but I sure could use some apple help.

I bet many of us here will begin seeing some of these newer macs in our searches for the older stuff, watch out....  UPDATE FIRMWARE BEFORE INSTALLING OSX 

Dammit, I'm still mad that Apple's OS install can so f$&&ht up their own semi-current machine...  Apple should never again be able to bitch about anything Microsoft...

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- Mike: dogas at bellsouth.net